Daniel O'Connell and the Anti-Slavery Movement:
'The Saddest People the Sun Sees'
Christine Kinealy
978 1 85196 633 2: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 85196 472 7
This study offers invaluable insight into a much-neglected area of historical research on this nineteenth-century political figure. Previous histories on O’Connell have dealt predominantly with his attempts to secure a repeal of the 1800 Act of Union and on his success in achieving Catholic Emancipation in 1829, Kinealy focuses instead on O’Connell’s contribution to the anti-slavery movement in the United States. She argues that by using his influences over Irish immigrants in the United States, O'Connell negotiated a position of importance in the international debate over the right to freedom. The anti-slavery movement occupied an important place in O’Connell’s wider commitment to humanitarian politics. He was both a member of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and Secretary of the Glasgow Anti-Slavery Society and he developed an international reputation as an influential spokesman on the issue.
Sample pages
Readership
Nineteenth-Century, Irish Studies, Political History, History of Slavery and Abolition, American Studies
Contents
Introduction
1 ‘The Colour of Servitude’
2 ‘Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!’
3 ‘Slavery under another Name’
4 ‘Murderers of Liberty’
5 ‘Foreign Interference in Domestic Affairs’
6 ‘American Sympathy and Irish Blackguardism’
7 ‘The Man of all Men’
8 ‘The Negro’s Friend’
Conclusion
Reviews
'Kinealy rightly concludes that [O'Connell] deserves more recognition and respect for his consistent and powerful advocacy of human rights throughout the world. Recommended.'
– CHOICE
'Kinealy’s work in this book valuably brings together O’Connell’s very active career against human bondage and for racial equality in the nineteenth-century Atlantic World.'
– David T Gleeson, Journal of British Studies
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